Beija Flor Resort Mal Pais

... town in the afternoon), we made it to Villas Hermosas www.villashermosas.com (paradise) where we were warmly greeted by Brad and his crew. We got grandpa and grandpa settled into the honeymoon cottage (which is right on the beach), and we got settled into the middle villa. Brad showed us around the property and our villa and explained the area to us. There was so much attention to detail, and it was so very nice. Grandma and grandpa could not get ...

... leave tomorrow morning. According to the WeatherBug on the computer it's currently 12 degrees farenheit in Boston right now, which makes leaving Montezuma even more difficult. We have a six hour layover in San Jose, so after we drop off the luggage we're going to hop into a cab to visit the Zoo. Our host, Alex had to do the same thing with his daughters a few years ago and recommended it as a ...

... top of the waterfall. So after getting back, we made a trek to the falls. It was quite a rough terrain hike along the river to the falls. But we were only at the bottom of the falls. It's another crazy terrain hike which requires us to scale a cliff and such. Since neither of us were well equiped with proper shoes, probably not a good idea we try. Sarah said we'd try again when we get back to montezuma and we try the hike again with proper ...

... looking so young - `mucho sexo` he tells us. So hilarious and sooooooo proud. Then his teeth fell out mid-laugh and his face caved in. So random! San Jose was just going nuts with Christmas shoppers and festivals, really nice and a good reminder to us that it *actually* was getting close to Christmas despite our lack of knowledge of the date, lack of snow, music, shopping...We left the next morning to get to Mal Pais to meet up with Ian and ...

... 8 the day and set off to explore the coastline along a gorgeous, unpaved beach road where the forest meets the sea for many miles. Our bikes were beach cruisers with baskets and no gears, we should have got the montain bikes because the road was difficult, covered in rocks and hilly at times. We even did some river crossings on them and now are nursing sore *****. My monkeys rode in the basket on the front. Malpais is what Byron Bay would have been ...

... jam. nevem men se se zmeraj ni zdelo da bi do tega zares lahko prislo, sploh ker je Costa Rica tako dalec od Peruja. Ampak dobr ce bi pa tsunami res prisel pa je bolje biti vsaj malo pripravljen. Punce so ze zdavnaj tekle v hrib, midve z Leane sva pobrale svojo elektronko, seveda brez mp3 in fotica ne grem nikamor, in dokumente ter se odpravile se z nekaj ljudmi v neko restavracijo na hrib ...

... of Costa Rica, usually the preferred coast by ticans and more importantly surfers !! ;) We got to Montezuma on Friday for dinnertime, and for the first time, i may say, the hotel was a little sketchy and definitely very primitive. We got a couple laughs out of it however, esp when Elyse tried to make light of it by complimenting the fact that we had safes in our room........ until she had the safe door in her hand when opening the damn thing..... hahah ...

... I also sent out an email to my beloved (yours too Michelle) colorado boys (Majagual entry) to see what they were up to, because I knew they were somewhere in Costa Rica. I recieved an email back almost immediately saying they were also in Tamarindo, working as surf instructors and living just up the road. I was so excited!!! I found Maia the next day in the morning and we hung out and I met some of her friends. I also met up with the boys when they were finished their work day and ...

... great. It has a trail out the back gate directly to the beach, which is miles long and never crowded. The owner is also very laid back. In the kitchen there is a cooler with cola, water, beer, etc..and there is just a sheet of paper above where you write your name and what you take, and you pay when you want. the type of people who are staying there that he doesn't have to worry with anyone taking advantage of it. We tried to pay him for ...

... when the person you are telling to get lost doesn't understand. Anyway, John was ready to kick his ass, and I told him to just ignore it because the guy probably has a group of friends near by that are equally as high as him. Turned out that this guy tried to steal a guys surfboard when we were about to get off. Last I saw, he was "talking" to a bunch of backpackers... if I had time I would have gone over there to warn them about him, but we were in the midst of getting on our bus ...